Gone from his set: a joke about Rupert Murdoch.
Too close to a well-received joke just used by PresidentJoe Biden.
It was a constant process of just putting stuff together, Wood said of his performance.
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That was true about his first line, directed at Biden:Real quick, Mr. President.
Best joke wins, Wood said.
A joke about age will always be funnier from an old man, not a 44-year-old.
Bidens remarks forced Wood to scramble some of the structure of his material.
Im a stickler for joke proximity as well, Wood said.
So we cant have back-to-back Tucker and Don jokes in succession, because its just in the audiences mind.
My dog, Don Lemon.
They had to part ways, because Don Lemon cant even accurately report a story about Don Lemon.
Quips about Lemon being past his prime were off limits.
Social media really did make comedy writing more of a heavy lift.
It was not necessarily having a solution, but lets just acknowledged that it happened.
I think it was inThe Shade Room, which is a big deal, especially in the Black community.
The site characterized Wood as defending Harris, and he agreed.
Wood said that Harris told him afterward, It was really funny.
I am sure your mother is proud.
His mother, Joyce Dugan Wood, got to meet her backstage.
That got nothing, he said.
Someone was telling me, Dont think anything about anyone not laughing.
It is just a big room.
Its a hard room, he said.
We just couldnt get to everything, he said.
People are very quick to say, Oh, but you are onThe Daily Show,' Wood said.
But The Daily Show aint my standup comedy.
So you dont know me as a performer.
You dont know my heart.
You dont know where I am coming from.
So I have to be funny, funny, funny.
Everybodys laughing [when] I said Don Lemon is an asshole.
But Don Lemon also did a lot of really good journalism, he said.
And so the question becomes, Who is going to take that place at CNN?
Who replaces Don Lemons tenacity?
That is a detriment to the next five minutes of jokes.
Theres almost 400 journalists in jail right now, all over the globe.
My pop could have been one of them.
And he never talked about it.
It was one of the few things we never talked about.
Wood said he forgot one important tip that Minhaj gave him: To drink a lot of water beforehand.
My mouth was so dry, so I was talking so slow, he said.
It was definitely a room where there were a lot of big checkbooks, he said.
They are not even comfortable while watching.
Yeah, I think I would, he said.
